hebersgarden
Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 August 1910, page 5
BOUGHT BY C AND O RAILROAD
After negotiating for months, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
yesterday closed the deal for the purchase of Heber's Garden at Melbourne Ky. a
few miles above Newport, where new shops and yards will be constructed to take
the place of the ones in Covington. The consideration was $15,000. The site
comprises hundreds of acres and is one of the most famous picnic grounds in this
section as it has been so used for nearly 50 years.
The company decided to move from Covington because it claimed that the citizens and Council of that city were not willing to cooperate with them, and it would be cheaper to establish new shops and yards at Melbourne. As the result of the C and O buying realty in the neighborhood of Melbourne pieces of land near by have jumped to enormous figures.
It is the intention of the railroad to build a city on the hills back of Melbourne and employees will be urged to move there. The Melbourne location is an ideal one for the railroad, as the hills are back some distance from the river and give the railroad as immense level tract of land above the high water mark.
Nearly 2000 employees will be taken away from Covington when the new town is completed.